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...This is one of the best [Elvis concerts] I've ever seen. He was just incredible," said Lee Courtney, a Hartford, Connecticut disk-jockey who came to see his 15th Costello concert...
...family known as Personal System/2, range in price from $2,065 for the desktop Model 30 to $13,300 for the fully equipped Model 80. All are packed with advanced, IBM-designed technology, from the custom- made chips that replace plug-in cards to an optional laser disk that can hold 800,000 pages of text. But the basic components -- the microprocessors, floppy disks and operating system -- are made of readily available, off-the- shelf parts, which should make it relatively easy for other firms to legally reproduce the new machines...
...user who sits down at a PS/2 will be struck by the improved keyboard, the smaller system box and the disk drives (3 1/2-in. microfloppies rather than the original 5 1/4-in. disks). Although the new models can handle most of the old PC programs, software written for the PS/2s will not run on the PCs, which could doom the older machines to obsolescence...
Attempts by North to alter, and perhaps even delete, certain key files may have been foiled by another feature of the system. Like most computers, the NSC mainframe deletes electronic documents not by obliterating the data they contain, but by removing their file names from a central disk directory. The body of information remains intact indefinitely -- or until the space it occupies is written over with new data. Thus a resourceful programmer, armed with a description of a document that has been zapped, can often resurrect it from the disk. "We were living under a delusion," admitted one Administration official...
While Reagan intended last week's sanctions to be harsh, the Administration carefully aimed them at the offending Japanese companies rather than U.S. consumers. Most of the products -- among them computer disk drives, refrigerators and electric motors -- are manufactured by the same giant corporations that the U.S. accuses of violating the semiconductor agreement: NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi and others. Because the proposed 100% duties would effectively double the U.S. prices of those items, the Administration avoided choosing products in which Japan has a near monopoly, as in the case of videocassette recorders. The sanctioned products are manufactured by enough companies...